Four-Element Zen

 

Is there a significant metaphorical-mapping between the classical-mythic "Four Elements" and the awakening-awareness aspects of Attention + Acceptance + Affirmation? Maybe just symbol play-poetry:

  • Fire = Mindfulness → time-energy, spirit, thought, meta, ...
  • Water = Nonattachment → force, change, process, transform, turn, flow, go, ...
  • Air = Oneness → open, soft, full, invisible-yet-seen, space, ...

... and if so, where then is Earth? — the foundational slow-solid-stolid substrate on which being-itself exists?

Perhaps this is just an amusing diversion, at most marginally useful in creative discovery of more patterns, or as a mnemonic device? (Or not!)

(cf Google Trends (2006-05-27), Be Earth (2010-12-07), Core Buddhism (2011-10-17), 0-1 (2014-08-29), Elements (2015-06-02), Golem and Jinni (2016-06-10), The Elements (2017-10-24), Meditation Map (2019-01-19), Awakening Matrix (2019-04-29), ...) - ^z - 2019-10-06